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I have my first broody hatching chicks too! Also a Buff Orp. Today is hatching day and i couldnt be more excited! I would love to hear how its going for you. Can you give an update?

They've been penned right in with them for about 8 weeks now. I think everyone knows each other pretty well!

This is my first integration so I'm really nervous. Tomorrow is the big day. Do I just put the young ones out with the old ones first thing in the morning? I just read something about putting them on the roost at night... do I do that tonight? Here's what I'm thinking.... I'll open the big...

I have 10 hens (BR, RIR, SS, BA) and one rooster (BA) that are 1 year old. This spring I purchased 8 new chicks (why not?). At about 4 weeks old, I moved the chicks into a 2' x 4' brooder pen inside the coop (with a heating pad brooder which was awesome) in plain site (which caused a slight...

I have a one year old Black Australorp rooster that needs to go. I found a rooster among this year's new chicks that I would like to keep in his place.

This is awesome! I would like to try something similar. My current flock is 13 hens and one rooster. Is there any concern with the rooster and the young chicks?

Thanks! I guess it helps if I read the whole article before I post additional questions. Well, I followed all the instructions and she is now in a large dog crate in the house. The cats are a little freaked out but they'll get over it. I'm concerned that part of the 'red' prolapse seems hard...

That could certainly be the problem. Thanks so much sharing your wisdom! Just curious - why would we need to keep her separate?

My chicken don't free range but they don't have a covered run either. They are in an area that was fenced for dogs previously, about 25' x 55', but contains chickens - if you clip their wings. After it snows, I go out and shovel their 'patio' area, then I shovel what looks like a rectangular...

One of my speckled Sussex, 9 mos old, yesterday morning appeared with a large (size of a jumbo egg or a little bigger) yellow clump frozen to her backside below her vent. Initially I thought she had sat on a broken egg or laid a shell-less egg and it just froze to her fluffy butt feathers. I...

We've caught the Barred Rock's laying! We have 4 BA and we got 4 eggs in one day. The egg color varies slightly but we're going to say they're all BA eggs for now. Its so much fun to check for eggs. Does this excitement ever wear off?

We got our first eggs on Sept 10 - two on the first day! We've been getting one or two every other day. We have 4 different breeds. I've been searching 'egg color' charts to try to identify what I've got but the charts seem to vary widely. Some eggs have speckles in the color. Is that...

My flock just turned 16 weeks old (BA, RIR, BR, SS). I opened up the nesting boxes a couple weeks ago and thought they would start exploring them. I filled them with straw and a golf ball or two in each. I am not seeing any evidence that they are going in. I fluff up the straw and it's still...

His coloring is different. I thought it was just because he was a rooster. I finally spouted a couple tail feathers and he is catching up in size. I sure hope he isn't a mix! I was hoping to breed my own chicks next year... oh well , I guess we'll just learn as we go along!

I think he was a little on the small side when we got them. But the others just seem to be growing much faster - and sprouting tail feathers.